The table provides information about students studying in different departments at an Australian university in 2009, showing the percentage of females, students whose first language was not English, and those born outside Australia.
Overall, it is clear that females dominated in the Humanities and Education departments, while males were the majority in technical fields such as Engineering and Information Technology. In contrast, the proportion of international and non-native English-speaking students was highest in Physics, IT, and Engineering.
In detail, the Humanities department had the largest percentage of female students (72%), followed closely by Education at 68%. These two departments also had relatively low shares of students with a first language other than English (12% and 16%, respectively) and small proportions of those born outside Australia (20% and 23%).
On the other hand, Engineering and Information Technology had the fewest female students, at 15% and 17%, respectively. However, they had some of the highest figures for students whose first language was not English (42% and 49%) and for those born overseas (48% and 56%). Similarly, Physics showed a moderate proportion of females (56%) but also a high percentage of students born outside Australia (56%).
In summary, arts-related departments were more popular among Australian female students, while science and technology fields tended to attract more international and non-native English-speaking st udents.